Monday, December 27, 2010
Psychohistory of America
Will America still be competitive against China, India, Germany, Japan, or Dar al Islam at the end of the century? Well, any attempt at psychohistory ought to consider the more than 50 percent of America's electorate that is utterly incapable of growing out of political adolescence. Libertarian Conservatives think our salvation is free trade with China and simply have little comprehension regarding the importance of assimilating national values. Corporatists, who give not a fig about the American middle class, will pull our adolescent sheeple around by their noses. Yes, there is a newly invigorated tea party, but our middle class in main has too aptly demonstrated its impotent idiocy and vulnerability to big corporatist investment in buying government. I suspect much of the so-called conservative movement actually sees the salvation of conservatism in international corporatist capitalism, national borders be hanged. The NWO juggernaut has slowed only to allow its supply lines to catch up with its forward advance. Much will depend on people like John Bolton. Could he, or folks like him, govern in respect of what is actually best for America and its middle class? If not, the Big Boy will not be America, but those who own and toy with America.
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Evolution (i.e., species change) occurs. We see this each season as a new flu bug spreads. The inquiry ought not be whether evolution occurs, because it does. The more pertinent inquiry is whether the feedback of conscious will plays a role in the unfolding of evolution (i.e., conscious design). That is an issue about which one may qualitatively intuit, but not empirically prove or disprove. Using science and math, the best one can do is to compose arguments based on analysis, selected for confirmation bias. Those arguments can be interesting, but they go in circles. I suspect the key is less in quantitative empiricial proof than in the qualitative character of feedback in consciousness from perspectives of variously organized fields and particles. Some aspects of this may be analyzed mathematically, in bulk; other aspects by direct experience. As to consciousness itself, its ultimate explanation will remain as illusory as the end of the rainbow. As to our psychological natures, the political question ought to be less about how individuals happen to find themselves than about how a society or culture ought to seek to guide its evolution. The "ought" in that issue is not answerable in science or logic. It is only "answerable" in intuitive, social empathy. A practical guide may consist in this: What sort of decent, sustainable society for the ongoing and unfolding expression of varying perspectives of free will should the Field of consciousness seek to avail?
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Regarding rainbows and the Epic of Gilgamesh, see [en.wikipedia.org].
"This place (the end of the rainbow) is impossible to reach, because the rainbow is an optical effect which depends on the location of the viewer."
"Then Ishtar arrived. She lifted up the necklace of great jewels that her father, Anu, had created to please her and said, "Heavenly gods, as surely as this jewelled necklace hangs upon my neck, I will never forget these days of the great flood."
To stem corporatist socialism, the middle class must inform itself of the true nature of the corporate succubus and fashion institutions with the wherewithal to counter it; that is, the middle class must raise consciousness and forms of institutions to stop corporations from competing in the buying and selling of governmental influence.
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